Pedigree
By: by Georges Simenon ; translated by Robert Baldick ; introduction by Luc Sante.
Contributors: Baldick, Robert.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Pedigree
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9781590173510
Subjects: Boys -- Belgium -- Fiction; City and town life -- Belgium -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction; Liège (Belgium) -- Fiction; Belgium -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Pedigree.
Description: Spanning the years from the beginning of the century, with its anarchist threats, to the end of the First World War in 1918, "Pedigree "is the story of a boy growing into a young man and making his way in a city of gaslights, trams, rain, squalor, and secret delight.